The design of this poster, as true with all of Saul Bass' work, is exceptional. It is very clean and simplistic, yet it tells the viewer everything they should expect from the movie. The text is somewhat industrial and there is an illustration of a staircase one would find on the outside of a building in New York, telling us that the story takes place in a city. There is a hint of blood splatter, hinting at conflict, or violence. The two figures, a male and a female, are shown dancing so we can infer that the movie will be a musical. Drawn at the top in black the figures are united, meaning that during the night they are able to secretly see each other. Towards the bottom of the page, the figures are separated and are drawn in white, meaning that in the day and out in the open they are forced to be apart. Saul Bass is very good at telling a lot of information with only a little.
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